Week 2 Day 1: Snatch Work

Coming off a great week of training last week I was hoping for a great day of Snatches. I have been struggling to connect my snatch. Pulling too early, Cutting the pull off, Looping the bar, Over pulling, and Being soft in the hole. You name it i have done it. I am focusing on staying back on my heels, allowing the bar to flow up my hip and creating momentum that will allow the bar to fly past my head.
Training is a day to day process, some days are great, some days are awful. As long as I can keep my head up, My shoes on, Knees sleeves full a sweat, and hand chalked I will be on my way to my goals.
Training Today:

Snatch Pull + Snatch 6x1+1
Bar work
50 2x1+1
70 2x1+1
80 x1+1
90  x1+1
100  x1+1 Miss Behind
100  x1+1 Miss In front 
Could not find my rhythm at 100k today
105  x1+1
110  x1+1
110  x1+1
115  x1+1

Hang Snatch - Below Knee
3x2
95 k 3x2
All Solid

Everyday is a challenge when things are not going great!

Bluegrass Barbell Big week

170kg Clean PR/ Birthday Lift: Great Week of Training

Today makes the day that I finally met a goal! I can now officially mark of my list: Clean 170kg. Today is also the day that I turn 27. It has been a great birthday. Wife made me a fantastic breakfast, Trained for 2.5 Hours, Hit a PR, and  now going to be around friends and family to celebrate.

Training today consisted of Clean and Jerk (Jerk was taken out due to shoulders being a little upset).
Clean and Jerk:
Bar x10
50k x1
70 x1
90 x1
100x1
110 x1
120 x1 (Shoulders started to act up)
120 x1 Moved Faster under the jerk
130 x1 Hit the jerk decided

Clean Max
140 x1
150 x1
160 x1
167 x1 (PR 2k)
170 x1 (PR 5K)

Back Squat 3x3
165 x3
170 2x3

It was a long training session but full of PR's. A few of my Teammates hit a few PR's or at the least had a great lift as well. Dan Worked on moving under the bar faster, and saw some marked improvements in that. Coach Ben is tapering for the Arnold Classic next weekend. Chad blew up 250kg Box Squat today! (Wish I could Squat like Chad). All in all it was a great week of training and a fantastic training session today to top it all off.

Bluegrass Team Lift

Bluegrass barbell team lift #1! great training session tonight. It is always a great lifting session when success is in the air. Like I said . Great things will be happening this year. Day 3 of the new program was a great lift. Cleans from the hang and power cleans from the floor.I finally got my new knee sleeves in! very excited that m Tommy Kono Knee Sleeves came in and got to test the waters today with them. If you are a serious lifters i now know why every lifter should have some. It was heaven surrounding my knees during the lift.

Cleans - hang below knee 6x1
Bar work to begin.
50 4x1
70 3x1
80 x1
90x1
100 x1
110 x1
120x1 
130x1
135 x1
140 x1
145 x1 
150 x1

Power Clean - Floor 3x2
124 3x2

Below are some videos from the training session. 140/145/150 clean.

2-21-13 Team Lift Bluegrass barbell

Power Jerk!

Today training consisted of all power jerks! Light day only 1 movement trained but the goal was quality. Got the chance to make it to bluegrass barbell today to jerk off the boxes today. Life is so much better when you can drop weight to giant wooden boxes. Day two of the program was Power Jerks for max 2. I had a good feeling going into the training session and I was right. I was extremely sore coming into today's session. Yesterday was a rough session and it came haunt me all day. Breakdown:

Power Jerks
Bar work
50 x2
50x5 press to warm the shoulders up a bit more!
70x2
80x2
90x2
100x2
110x2
120x2
130x2
135 x2
140x2
145x1 press out so I stopped.

Was very happy with how the training session went today. Tom was doing some split jerks with me and we was blowing them up. All around great short session for me and bluegrass.

The beginning- New Program form Coach Carter!

Today marks the beginning of a new phase. Got my program from Coach Ben Carter! Today was a huge training session and I am feeling it! Warm up consisted of some 4" PVC pipe Rolling/ Hip Mobility/ T-Spine Mobility/ Ankle mobility. Grabbed a bar and became one with my bar!


2 Snatch Pull + Snatch
Warm up
50/ 70/80 x 2+1
6x2+1
90 2+1 Solid
95 2+1
100 2+1 Miss in front Rushed the Pull
100 2+1 perfect Stayed on the Heels
105 2+1
110 2+1 Shaky in the hole.

3x3 Hang Snatch Below Knee
89k 3x3
First 2 were perfect each set hand a hard time stabilizing the 3rd snatch each set.
May have to do with a lack of conditioning.

Front Squat 
3x3 150k
This squat session today felt very heavy! Hit all three sets but my legs felt as if i ran a marathon.

Jerk Front Dip Drives
3x3 165
I though that squat felt heavy but 165 felt like 195 today. Struggled through the jerk drives. Tried to stay back on my heels and tight down and back up.

Tomorrow will be a lighter day and looking forward to it.

Confidence booster

Every once in a while a lifter needs their confidence boosted! Today was one of those days! I had envisioned a 120 snatch today. Testing the waters to see where I was when it comes to max outs. I started warming up and felt great I have noticed that I am not exactly where I want to be. Pulling from the floor I am having a tendency of rushing into the pull.
Snatch
50 5x1
70 3x1
80x1
90x1
100x1
110x1
112x1
115 4x1

Now is when the confidence booster came I to play! I grabbed the some pulling blocks to but the bar where I knew I could succeed. With the bar now elevated right at me knees I grabbed my straps gripped the bar and applied some force.
Snatch - block at knee
70x1
90x1
100x1
110x1
115x1
120 (3x1) missed 1 on front 1 behind 1 perfect.
130 3x1 all attempts for fun and wanted to see where I was. I came very close on a couple of attempts just couldn't commit to getting my head through. Soon 130 will be mine again and I will keep pressing on!

Thanks to justin for my post training session massage! Back is feeling great now!